These little bikes are sweet. I am a bit confused... Why would you not consider this CB500X a "Real" Adventure bike? So many RTW riders choose the BMW 650 due to it's light weight nature, durability and reliability... Others take DR650's and even Vstrom 650's. What about the "small displacement" makes them seemingly not so adventurous to you? What makes an "Adventure Bike" and adventure bike per se?
These guys have been doing this for over two years but have been getting a lot of publicity the last few weeks after doing touratech rally west. They hit the WABDR and some of the OHV parks on these beasts and have all the video to go with. http://
XLADV has been invited to the launch of the new CB500X this Friday so check back for more details!
This is an interesting bike in that it's not really an adventure bike per se but it ends up being used as one anyways. I've seen quite a few mods like from Rally Raid UK.